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| Authored by: Kevin on Wednesday, August 08 2012 @ 02:50 PM EDT |
Look and feel will become protectable IP as soon as one side or the other on a
look and feel case pays enough money to the politicians. The only way to test
whether enough money has been paid is to run a case like this through the
courts, so every few years they run one through again. Sooner or later, they'll
have paid enough.
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73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin (P.S. My surname is not McBride!)[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 08 2012 @ 03:18 PM EDT |
Apple vs MS on look and feel was with copyright and menus.
This case is about trademarks, design patents and regular
patents.
So we know that look and feel cannot be copyrighted, but how
much and with what can it be protected? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 08 2012 @ 07:32 PM EDT |
That's not what Apple's legal claims actually are - they're claiming design and
"technical" patent infrigement. Even if (and they didn't) Samsung
took an iphone and deliberately copied every UI element exactly, that'd be more
or less irrelevant to the current case as it's not what Apple is claiming.
This _whole discussion_ about who copied who is completely tangental to the
actual case, which is a bunch of weak software patents that appear to apply ot
ideas instead of implementations and a sloppy design patent that doesn't really
match what samsung did.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: PJ on Wednesday, August 08 2012 @ 07:41 PM EDT |
Because the first time Apple lost. So now
it's trying with a different approach. Same
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